41. If you could invent one thing to make the world a better place, what would it be? That’s the question Google
asked students in kindergarten 41 12th grade across the United States for this year’s Doodle 4 Google contest.
Students were asked to redesign the famous Google logo using that 42 . On May 21, Audrey Zhang was chosen 43 the winner out of more than 100,000 contestants. The fifth grader’s doodle, “Back to Mother Nature,” shows
a 44 water purifier. To help Audrey 45 , Google is giving $20,000 in her name to a charity to bring clean
water and latrines to 10 schools in Bangladesh.
【題組】41. (A) until (B) through (C) between (D) beyond

It began as just an ordinary day for Yevgeny Salinder. The 11-year-old boy was taking a walk near his home in
central Russia when suddenly the extraordinary happened. Yevgeny found animal limbs sticking out of the frozen
ground. The boy told his parents, who immediately contacted scientists. When experts began digging out the buried
creature, they discovered it was a 30,000-year-old woolly mammoth. Scientists say it is one of the greatest woolly
mammoth discoveries in more than a century.
The mammoth has been named Jenya, which is a nickname for the discoverer’s Russian name, Yevgeny.
Scientists say Jenya died at the age of 16. He is 6 feet 6 inches tall, and weighs 1,100 pounds. Since some mammoths
may have been as tall as 13 feet, scientists are taking note of Jenya’s size. “He was pretty small for his age,” says
Professor Alexei Tikhonov of the Zoology Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia. What is also unusual about this
mammoth is his missing left tusk. The loss of a tusk would have made fighting difficult for Jenya. Experts think a
crack in his remaining tusk means that the mammoth may have been hunted by humans.
The well-preserved state of Jenya is what makes this discovery especially extraordinary. Much of the carcass
still has scraps of flesh, fur and organs intact. The mammoth also has a massive hump of fat on his back. The fat
helped mammoths keep warm during the frigid Arctic winters. The condition of Jenya’s body will allow scientists and
experts to learn more about woolly mammoths. With enough information, one day it may be possible to recreate this
prehistoric wonder.

【題組】46. What is the passage mainly about?
(A) The teamwork between a boy and scientists.
(B) The discovery of a buried woolly mammoth.
(C) The physical structure of woolly mammoths.
(D) The relationship between a boy and a mammoth.

49.【題組】49. Which of the following is NOT something that Jenya’s missing tusk suggests?
(A) Fighting might be difficult for Jenya.
(B) Jenya might have been hurt by hunters.
(C) Jenya might have been hunted by humans.
(D) The tusk might have helped Jenya keep warm in winter.

50.【題組】50. Which of the following statements is NOT true?
(A) Yevgeny Salinder is an expert of woolly mammoths.
(B) The woolly mammoth was named after its discoverer.
(C) Jenya is about half the height of some big mammoths.
(D) Scientists can learn more about woolly mammoths from Jenya